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...enough traffic to benefit other stores--and restaurants and hotels--in any city or mall, where it is the anchor tenant. After all, notes Hagale, there are just too many cookie-cutter mall stores. "We don't build gray boxes," he says. He's not bragging. The 130,000-sq.-ft. Bass Pro Outdoor World in Hanover, Md., has a massive fish tank, offers how-to lessons in fishing and hunting and teaches conservation in addition to having every lure, rod, reel, gun and gadget under the sun. A full-size float plane hangs from the ceiling...
...Meanwhile, Sydney's plan for a Moving Image Museum is being resurrected on the Brisbane River. While local firm Architectus' competition-winning design does appear to float, with a 12-m winged canopy and 9,000 sq. m of glass, the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art is anchored by the black box of a cinema at its base. Two theaters and an exhibition space will form the hub of Australia's first Cinematheque within an art museum, when it opens with the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in November 2006. "One of the most important visual arts...
...paradise, too. Mauritius has produced textiles for more than three decades, supplying Europe and the U.S. with designer clothing. But over the past few years many of these same garments have become available for purchase on the island itself. Clothing shops freckle the island, which is just 1,900 sq km in size. In the village of Arsenal on the northwest coast, for instance, you can buy Hugo Boss and DKNY polo shirts for around $16 - much cheaper than the West's retail price of $65. Bargain hunters should also head to other shopping villages such as Curepipe or Rose...
...number of islands for sale, but high-end real estate experts say 17 barren outcrops alone are up for grabs in the Ionian Sea, near Nidri Lefkada, pictured, and Skorpios, Onassis' private retreat. Paloma Picasso, fashion designer and daughter of the Spanish artist Pablo, recently bought the 540,000-sq-m island of Petalas nearby. Much of the growing enthusiasm stems from changes to Greek property laws in 2003 that allow foreigners to buy islands for as little as $670,000. Is there a catch? Island shopping could prove a tad risky in the eastern Aegean, because some outcrops...
Devastated cities are frequently rebuilt in ways not so different from how they looked before disaster struck. Established property lines and existing infrastructure are confines that are hard to escape. Look at the World Trade Center site, where the determination to bring back all 10 million sq. ft. of lost office space and the presence of below-ground features like an electrical-utility switching station have had more influence on the shape of reconstruction than any number of visionary architects. Add to that the human tendency to take comfort in the thought that an area that has suffered near destruction...